iPhone 3G, Get Away, GPRS is much better!!

[Santa Rosa]

Well thats what you could take from the following on the CarphoneWarehouse website lol

Here is another "iPhone Killer" plus some interesting information for you to take a look at. Uhh yeeaaa.....

 

[philgilder]

"Please note, GPRS is not quite as fast as 3G"

also, look below that, it says 3G!!!

 

[aethelbert]

CPW knows how to write some very convincing ads. Though as much as I want one of those (I mean, they make it sound so great), I think that I'll stick with my iPhone.

Thanks for sharing that, it was a good laugh. Do you have a link to that page? I'd like to read the rest of the categories and see if they're as bad.

 

[megfilmworks]

A client of mine just got that Samsung. It is butt ugly and very cheaply made.
He hates it and is ready to switch to Att and the iPhone.

 

[Van Wildonher]

I doesn't say it's better than 3G.

 

[Rigsby]

Hold it, what's that just to the right of the speaker? Is that a front facing camera? And Picture Messaging? It's got everything the iPhone needs - according to most of the posters on here anyway.

 

[Santa Rosa]

CPW knows how to write some very convincing ads. Though as much as I want one of those (I mean, they make it sound so great), I think that I'll stick with my iPhone.

Thanks for sharing that, it was a good laugh. Do you have a link to that page? I'd like to read the rest of the categories and see if they're as bad.

This would be the link, its in the read more section

I doesn't say it's better than 3G.

Hold it, what's that just to the right of the speaker? Is that a front facing camera? And Picture Messaging? It's got everything the iPhone needs - according to most of the posters on here anyway.

Boys, its just a laugh, no need to get all technical on it. Lighten it up over there!!

 

[Eric Lewis]

i heard GPRS is faster then 3G anyways....i dont get it

 

[sassenach74]

I must be missing something because I don't quite know what you're getting at.

 

[Rigsby]

i heard GPRS is faster then 3G anyways....i dont get it

I must be missing something because I don't quite know what you're getting at.

My understanding is that GPRS is better for some applications because of the way it transmits small packets of data. It might not have the speed of 3G, but for something like email it can handle the small transfers more efficiently.

 

[nakile]

For those of you who are not getting the joke:

GPRS is the bare basics of data service. It provides speeds around 30 or 40 kbps. EDGE may feel like dial-up, but GPRS is dial-up in the technical sense.

 

[Santa Rosa]

i heard GPRS is faster then 3G anyways....i dont get it

My understanding is that GPRS is better for some applications because of the way it transmits small packets of data. It might not have the speed of 3G, but for something like email it can handle the small transfers more efficiently.

Way to go to ruin a bit of a laugh, right you have now so this is how it goes.

If you read what the picture said it says using GPRS to send video. GPRS on a phone is SLOW!!!!

Read what is in the picture, you might get it then, if not it really doesnt matter anymore.

For those of you who are not getting the joke:

GPRS is the bare basics of data service. It provides speeds around 30 or 40 kbps. EDGE may feel like dial-up, but GPRS is dial-up in the technical sense.

Thank you, unfortunately its too late now...

 

[Ironduke]

Well thats what you could take from the following on the CarphoneWarehouse website lol

Here is another "iPhone Killer" plus some interesting information for you to take a look at. Uhh yeeaaa.....

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quit licken apples nuts ffs, the i900 has far more features then the iPhone, lets get one thing straight, apple are late to the 3g party, they could have done it last year as most 3g chipsets are backward compatible with edge, they simply did it to save themselves money.

 

[Santa Rosa]

quit licken apples nuts ffs, the i900 has far more features then the iPhone, lets get one thing straight, apple are late to the 3g party, they could have done it last year as most 3g chipsets are backward compatible with edge, they simply did it to save themselves money.

Wow, just wow. The entire point of the thread has been missed by an unquantifiable distance.

 

[Rigsby]

Jeez. Sorry.

 

[The Phazer]

For those of you who are not getting the joke:

GPRS is the bare basics of data service. It provides speeds around 30 or 40 kbps. EDGE may feel like dial-up, but GPRS is dial-up in the technical sense.

No it isn't. WAP is dialup. GPRS is a a discrete, always on service. That's why phone providers charge by the megabyte rather than by the minute, as they did with WAP.

I don't see anything wrong with Carphone Warehouse's page, other than maybe being a bit old fashioned. GPRS is considerably faster than WAP, and not as fast as 3G (mostly). The phone listed supports both.

Phazer

 

[DreamPod]

I just don't get the joke, nowhere on the page does it even imply that GPRS isn't as good as 3G, in fact it specifically says 3G is faster.

Joke ftl